Brian Atkins and Jack McNally were successfully recruited by Professor Ellington a few months after their first fall. They were trained by Agent James Klein and both got through the intensive 3 month training with excellent results. Despite both being men being socially reserved they worked well together and Agent Klein suggested that they be assigned to the same mission once their training was completed. Klein noted a warning about both men. McNally is at the moment only interested in the money Regency is paying him. His loyalty is questionable should he receive a better offer. Klein hopes his coming experiences working for Regency will bind him more loyally to the organisation. Atkins is happy to accept our salary but maintains a moral code that could have the potential to put him at odds with future mission objectives. Klein hopes that his coming experiences will help him see the bigger picture when performing his duties.

For the first mission Atkins and McNally were tasked with getting to a broken room in Wichita , Kansas. This is one of our stronger rooms so the Friction should be manageable for their first jump. The room links to Earth8: Dread. Here they were to make contact with Agent Jessica Heyn who would brief them on a mission she needed executing on Earth4: Invasion. McNally requested an M-16 assault rifle based on his previous experiences on Earth8, and recommend Atkins take a powerful pistol. Agent Klein approved the equipment request.

After travelling to Earth8 the men were accosted by a gang of drunken thugs, one of whom claimed to be the mayor. McNally was able to disperse the thugs without resorting to violence. The pair then made contact with Agent Heyn who briefed them on the mission to Earth4: they were break into an office in Chicago on Earth4 belonging to Global Lab Corp, find the office of employee Frank Ogden and copy a specific file from his computer to a USB stick. From there they were to proceed to a basement laboratory where a broken room was located that would return them to Earth1. The room was due to cycle 2 hours after their arrival on Earth4 and had a long cycle period so it was essential that they did not take longer than 2 hours to complete the assignment. They were provided a code access to a side entrance to the Global Lab offices. Agent Heyn also requested that the men bring back any K-Tech they came across.

Agent Heyn took them to a broken room in her HQ where they travelled to Earth4. Once there mission proceeded seamlessly up until the point that the pair needed to access the basement laboratory. Having retrieved the file from Ogden’s computer they discovered a large metal door with a keycode entry blocking their entrance to the laboratory. The keycode provided to open the side entrance to the offices was not recognised by this security check point. McNally used his Breaking Meridian to form himself into a powerful battering ram and was able to smash through the metal door.

A hallway with a deserted guard station was on the other side of the door, along with another large metal door leading into the laboratory. This door was not security enabled. The sounds of gunfire and screaming were heard coming from the laboratory, which rapidly ended to be replaced by the sounds of scuttling creatures. It was clear that the K’thari had somehow penetrated the laboratory. Atkins and McNally identified two aliens in the laboratory and it seemed clear that they were unable to open the large entrance door to the lab. They decided to wait to see if the aliens would leave but after 15 minutes without any indication this was happening, and the time before the room cycled decreasing, they decided they had no choice other than to open the door the laboratory and tackle the aliens.

Atkins opened the door with McNally covering him with his assault rifle. The pair had underestimated how quick the K’thari are and before they could act the 2 aliens who were in the lab had rushed into melee range. Fortunately both men were able to avoid the K’thari attacks. Atkins now used his Blocking Meridian to slow the aliens so that they could barely move. Rather than risk fighting them, the two men ran into the lab and closed the door behind them knowing that the K’thari were unable to manipulate the door.

Inside the lab it was clear that the K’thari were test subjects and had broken free to kill their captors. With a few moments before the broken room cycled the pair searched the lab and located some K-Tech weaponry. When McNally picked up one of the three K-Tech rifles he discovered that it meshed with his hand and he was unable to put the weapon down. With the mission thus completed, they used the broken room to return to Earth1. The USB stick was handed over to Agent Klein. Fortunately for McNally Regency have experience of removing K-Tech weaponry and the weapon was extracted with any injury to McNally. An important lesson for him. Mission successful.